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University Daily Kansan Thursday. March 15, 1962
Delaying Justice
The legend still persists in substantial areas of the Deep South that the requirements of federal law on segregation may be denied by legal obstruction, by interminable appeals and by erecting some new segregation statute whenever there is a breach in the wall.
As the number of desegregated school districts attests, however, there is no more hope for the Massive Resistance idea now than there was when Virginia went baying off after the theory of Interposition.
THE TRUTH is that in any area of the segregation controversy, where the legal questions are settled, the patience of the federal courts is not inexhaustible. This is true in any court system, state or federal. After so long, as attorneys well know, the highest tribunal in a system will weary of the endless argument and summarily sweep the impediments aside.
So it is now in the United States Supreme Court's sharply definitive decision on segregation in public transportation.
In a case arising indirectly from the arrest of Freedom Riders in Mississippi, the court has used language of the kind reserved to meet complete intransigence. The questions in segregated transportation have been settled now for so long that there is really nothing left to debate. Yet the state of Mississippi has continued to follow the line of defiance by arresting Freedom Riders in mass whenever they sought to exercise their rights as defined by the highest court.
HENCE THE extraordinary language —
"We have settled beyond question that no state may require racial segregation in interstate or intrastate transportation facilities.
"The question is no longer open; it is foreclosed as a litigable issue."
What's relevant in this matter is not the judgment, nor the tactics, of the Freedom Riders. Their demonstrations have been entirely within the law, so the issue is simply whether anyone may exercise a constitutional right free of police arrest and harassment.
The issue of segregated transportation is, indeed, foreclosed in a court decision which in essence upholds the doctrine that justice indefinitely delayed is justice denied.
(From the March 1 Little Rock Arkansas Gazette)
Mr. Brian O'Heron states that he contacted several people of the John Birch Society in Wichita, asking them to appear on the program of February 21st and these people "promptly refused." This, of course, is the usual error of fact so easily committed when one is trying to present an unbiased program and yet, at the same time, leans so far over the cliff it is impossible to retrieve them.
Note From a Bircher
Editor:
A truly unbiased meeting would have been one in which each film was shown, with a discussion following. Many of us on the conservative side do not try to pass ourselves off as "objective." We believe certain things and we are honest enough to admit it. It would seem Mr. O'Heron would do well to admit he is biased, stand up for his right to be biased, and not try to hide under the cloak of objectivity!
MR. O'HERON called me at home one evening, and I assured him I would talk to some people about the matter, as my own schedule was quite full at that time. As anyone who knows me well realizes, I have been very busy on this subject and many others, and I simply have not turned anyone down on an appearance if it were physically possible for me to be there. I had a commitment to be at our factory in Ohio on the same evening this program was presented, and it was hardly possible to be in two places at one time. Mr. Koch was out of Wichita at the date of the meeting, and Mr. Banowetz had another very important program in the city. To say we refused to come is an unfortunate choice of words. To say that we could not physically be there because of other arrangements would be the fair thing to say.
THE PEOPLE who are biased in our favor said Mr. Myers did a very fine job of handling all questions. Of course, those who are biased on the other side, in spite of their plea of objectivity, said he was not able to handle the questions. I have known Mr. Myers for some time; I know of his vast experience during the war and with the army of occupation following, and I also know of his fine ability to comprehend. I would say that he would easily match anyone put forth by Mr. O'Heron and his "unbiased" group.
Robert D. Love
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An Alumus on Fraser
Editor:
Word has finally trickled northward and westward to the State of Washington that one of the University of Kansas' most beloved (by alumni, at any rate) buildings and oldest landmarks is soon to depart the Jayhawk scene.
IT HAS NOT been long since I sat in Dr. Sidney Johnson's German classroom in one of Fraser's lefties.
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and draftiest corners. The unesiness which I sometimes felt was not entirely caused by anticipation of Dr. Johnson's "Ja, Herr Daeschner? Ganz falsch!" Oftimes the blusty winds of the prairie on a cold wintry afternoon would shriek their way through the Deutschesklausse (and down the corridor toward Dr. Johnson Watts' more care-free students) rattling the shutters and seemingly the walls as they rushed through. Yes, those were the great days of wearing parkas in classrooms—unlike Linus, in those days the parkas supplied us with such a deep sense of inner security that we left our cotton blankets at home and could face even "furriin" language study otherwise unsupported.
But enough of such reminiscence. It undoubtedly is time for Fraser Hall to retire and for the various departments housed therein to find more suitable quarters. One question, though, does stay in mind. The new building will undoubtedly be a great improvement in classroom and office efficiency, but what about the other aspect so important to us alumni—the landmark. I well remember the first time that I approached the famed temples of learning housed at Lawrence-on-the-Kaw. What a magnificent vista! And like a proud prince, perched atop Mount Oread — commanding the valley for miles around — with flags proudly flying, stood our beloved Fraser Hall. What, I pray, will be the replacement landmark? Will our beloved campus lose at one fell swoop of the wrecking ball the half of her physical and visual dignity? Will the newer erection be of yet another architectural design? Can even the honorable State Architect propose still another dissimilar structure, even as all new structures on the campus for generations have been unlike any of their predecessors?
IT IS a matter of concern to a number of proud KU alumni lost the replacement for Fraser be resemble, perhaps, a bowling ball with the classrooms located in the finger holes, rotating in frequency with our astronauts — or perhaps a shining space-needle structure — or perhaps a building cleverly disguised as a greenhouse — but then, we already have that model.
It is my real hope that the replacement building will be blessed with character and dignity befitting the great University of Kansas; further that the campus will have another landmark suitable as a replacement for Fraser.
Answer to a Middle-of-the Roader Editor:
William E. Daeschner
Class of 1961
In answer to attack from violent middle-of-the-roader, and putting aside my shillagh in favor of the calmer voice of reason; but not relinquishing an Irishman's enjoyment of a fight. (This "Kennedy
and cohorts makes me feel that I must have acquired control of the L.R.A.)
I am also basically a middle-of-the-roader (a Social Democrat), but in order to achieve progress it is necessary to drive on the left. Middle-of-the-roadism pure and simple, is apt to create merely a traffic block to necessary change.
MY ACTIVE resentment or segregation practices began shortly after my arrival in Lawrence, when I took a Negro girl to a drug store for a cup of coffee and was refused service. It was an impertion intrusion into my freedom of association. It is no one else's business whom I choose to associate with; certainly not a probably semi-illiterate drugstore manager.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Now it is not true that I am anti-Greek or against freedom of association. On the contrary, I believe in the basic superiority of independent housing to University provided housing, and in untrammeled freedom of association.
However, the stand of fraternities which possess discriminatory clauses, or engage in systematized unwritten discrimination against minority groups, is interfering, in fact, with the freedom of association of their own members, particularly as there are a considerable number of Greeks who are indifferent to racial or religious differences. In summary, one cannot take a stand based on the principle of freedom of association, at the same moment that one is breaking it.
NOW, ON THE right of an organization to choose its own membership; I completely concur in this right—inherent in all organizations of an "essentially" private character—like clubs, living groups, etc. But besides the legal right, there is also a moral obligation, to exercise it in a responsible spirit.
11 the American way of life( and the Irish way of life) are anything, they are manifestations of the democratic spirit: that is, in my opinion, they are based on the values of liberty, equality and fraternity. The last named seems to be generally overlooked by the political scientists. Nevertheless, what democratic society can coexist with serious ill-will between groups, whether it is the ill-will generated by religious conflict, caste prejudice, race conflict, or the institution of slavery?
Finally, with reference to "indignant's" very logical attack on the A.W.S.—made in a humorous vein. I agree with it in a serious vein—and have always considered the women's curfew regulations an affront to personal dignity—and to this much discussed principle of freedom of association!
Denis Kennedy
Denis Kennedy Dun Laoghaire, Ireland graduate student
" WHAT SAMATTER?  YA CUT HIS CLASS AGAIN?"
the took world
By Doug Farmer Pratt junior
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, by George and Helen Waite Papashvily, Pocket Books, Inc., 35 cents.
Heartwarming, entertaining, delightful and tremendous are the masterful words and lines which are found within this book.
The authors present their own charm and wit into a story of their life once here in the United States. George Papashvily is the immigrant who faces the strange and momentarily unexpected life in the new country. His wife Helen, a native of the land, portrays her own views of the new life and does a masterful job of showing the reader her reaction to her immigrant husband.
UPON ENTERING the country, George finds he has no money, no job, and more important, no understanding of the people and the country. This fast moving book demonstrates to the native of America the underlying feeling the immigrant must face and gives him an excellent view of how a foreigner looks at our country.
The book is written in the broken language of the authors and does much to add to the expressive zestful combination of understanding found throughout the book. The following lines present the typical language used in the book and the lack of understanding George had of America and its customs.
So we ate, after came pie, coffee, ice creams. Whistle blew himself again and we started out. At the door I showed money, I pay for my eat. They didn't take. So I put away. Gonna dock from my wages, I thought. Well is worth it. I'll come every day in here.
A book for entertainment of the highest level, it will reach the heart of everyone. The authors have written other books such as "Dogs and People," "Thanks to Noah," and "Yes and No Stories: Georgian Folk Tales."
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